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Alternative Critical perspective- Melbourne High School |
"The mythology of southernhood...elevated the white woman to a position of veneration (saintly)"
"The black woman being perceived as lusty and compliant, the white as puritanical and lily-white"
-white superiority -pejorative racial epithet- (immigrants considered higher than blacks (stanley=polak but still stanley)
"As a gay man, Tennessee Williams felt he was particularly sensitive to the status of women-powerless"
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LAST STOP: Blanche's Breakdown, Shirley Galloway |
"Tennessee willams infuses Blanche and Stanley with the symbols of opposing class and differing attitudes towards sex and love"
"Everyone loses something...gives the play its tragic cast"
Blanche- "subconsciously attracted to strong, basic male characters" -shes a masochist (wants to be hurt) -stanley as a sadist |
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Patricia Hearn & Micheal Hooper |
"Stanley is a new American, an Immigrant, a man of the city"
"[Stanley] shows, perhaps, the more acceptable face of that macho urban jungle pictured in the hollywood gangster movie of the 1930's"
- links to magical realism, expressionism (film star, unnatural & over the top) |
